Abstract
Abstract Induction of polyploidy was successfully achieved in grass pea (Lathyrus sativus L.) variety BioR-231 using 0.10% (eight hours three days), 0.20% (six hours two days and eight hours two days), 0.30% (eight hours one day) and 0.40% (six hours one day) colchicine solution by apical shoot tip treatment of young seedlings. Compared to diploid variety the tetraploid plants were morphologically distinguished by luxuriant vegetative growth showing broader and thicker leafl ets and stipules, fl attened stems, increased number of branches, enhanced length of tendril as well as peduncle, delayed fl owering and reduced pollen fertility. Number of sto-mata decreased but its size increased signifi cantly in tetraploids. Presence of 7II and 7–7 separation at meiosis-I were the usual feature in diploids (2n=2x=14) while occurrences of 28 chromosomes in different combinations of multivalents, bivalents and univalents at metaphase-I and unequal separation of chromosomes toward the spindle poles, bridge formation,...
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